Clean Quotes

• Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Positive, Teamwork, Responsibility

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• Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

  Larry Winget

  Example, Backyards, Attention

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• Make a mess. Clean it up.

  Keri Smith

  Mess

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• Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Aluminum, Nostalgia

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

  Publilius Syrus

  Change, Hands, Looks

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 715, 1856.

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• The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

  Thomas Merton

  Humble, Glasses, Light

  Thomas Merton (1972). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.189, New Directions Publishing

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• If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

  Chris Rock

  Rooms, Cleaners, Ifs

  "Chris Rock On Obama: ‘Being The First Black ANYTHING Sucks’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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• You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

  Bob Newhart

  Resorts, Shock, Shows

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• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  Calvin Trillin

  Hands, My Family, Century

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• If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Newspapers, Cleaners, Ifs

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• Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Giving, Clean Heart

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• Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Water

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• The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

  Mark Twain

  Cheer, Eye, Rivers

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• It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Jobs, Reality, Creating

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• As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

  Paul Anka

  Long, Growing, Want

  "Singer-songwriter Paul Anka". "Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 16, 2013.

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• I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.

  Roy Oswalt

  Goodbye, Years, Lockers

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• The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

  Horace Silver

  Play, Tunes, Ensemble

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• You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.

  Les Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, New Normal

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• As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

  Joyce Maynard

  Lying, Writing, Simple

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• I like the punch beggers and panhandlers when they ask me for change. I feel like I am doing my part to clean up the streets.

  Zach Braff

  Ask Me, Streets, Feels

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• I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.

  Mr. T

  Jesus, Rap, Clothes

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Water, Challenges

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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